DTS-CD DTS CD compatibility

[AllAroundSurround]

I don't know about the way you guys are doing yours !
I do all of mine with Cool Edit Pro 75 f.p.s. time format and even at that rate it shows the frames in more detail , so I try to get it at a full frame and break it. I want to get C.E.P. 2.0 With the cd burning program and try it from with in c.e.p. I've tried all different was to burn with no drops and found this works the best I do it some what like Cai does but i have all the waves in the C.E.P. multi-track and do the cuts from there.

 

[quadgdiaz]

wow with all this problems i was wondering if it's worth my time to try to encode dts cd's ???? I'm getting my(dts transferring) computer in about 2 weeks( finally). and i hope i don't run into troubles ????? like you guys. Gerardo

 

[MCunningham]

Jon, Not sure if that's the problem but it could be. I do know that when I'm using CDA and laying the track markers for seperate tracks, the end time of the preceding track is exactly the same as the beginning of the next track and that's the way I leave it for burning. You might try it that way and see if it makes a difference.

 

[AllAroundSurround]

Someone makes a computer all set up for d.t.s. encoding?
Does it come with surcode or what! Or is it a mac type setup

 

[AllAroundSurround]

No not that many problems! this is an isolated problem that we don't have an answer for. other than that it's very good!
Rob

 

[Cai Campbell]

Jon, if one song starts at 03:44:00, then the previous song should end at 03:44:00, not 03:43:59. In other words, the ends should be identical to adjacent starts with no gaps.

This issue is critical for titles where there is no gap between songs. This is totally unrelated to the problem you are having, though.

 

[Bob Romano]

Ericc

nope.... no real tweaking.

the only thing i had to tell the player was to play dd or dts through the digital out. But I would have had to do that anyway as the default of the player is originally set to play PCM but now it works great!! I can even play them through the multichannel out. In either case they work just fine.

 

[JonUrban]

Cai,

I was not sure if that would work, as the CDA default is 2 seconds between tracks. So I figured I make it .01 seconds, which is as close to zero as you can get. From now on, I will do 0 seconds.

ALSO - I have temporarily put a 1.7Mb DTS encoded file on my web page. Click the "oblio" graphic and it should play (if you have DTS with your PC) or download it and try it. I would be interested to see if Brian or others who have problems can burn this and play it.

It is a snippet from a DTS conversion I did.

I will probably only leave it there for a few days, as the ISP may complain about throughput!

:-jon

 

[Cai Campbell]

Some burning software may automatically insert the two-second gap between tracks. You should disable this feature and manually insert your second or two of silence between tracks when appropriate. The automatic two-second gap thingy can cause clicks between tracks on DTS CD's (not to mention really screwing with the "flow" of titles where there is not supposed to be a gap between songs).

 

[pe1dna]

Sony has a bad history record of cd-r compatibility. I would not recommend any Sony cd/dvd device to anybody that places value on cd-r compatibility. Use the dual-laser pickup systems of Pioneer for best cdr readability, if i may suggest.

Then, you can select your cdr media on more important aspects like life expectancy, instead of reflectivity.

Also, some cd / dvd players like to change something on the 44k1 PCM data stream before sending the raw data out on the digital audio output, corrupting DTS-CD data in the process.

Avoid this equipment, to be recognised by things like 'digital volume controls' etc. that also affect the sp/dif output.

 

[bming]

>Sony has a bad history record of cd-r compatibility.

This was true about a year or so ago, but Sony has changed their evil ways. I have a newer Sony SACD DVD player, and it plays CD-Rs, and CD-RWs with no problem, and I believe that their other newer DVD players are CD-R compatible also.
Brian

 

[AllAroundSurround]

The only problem with Sony now is they won't have DVD-A support as it is a compeating format to sacd/multi-channel etc

 

[pe1dna]

Brian,

Your remark is not consistent with the problem that quad2dts experienced, writing:

>I have the Sony SACD/DVD/CD with built in dts and have
>noticed that it will have drop outs and when I switch over
>to my Technics CD player with optical out to my Millennium I
>encounter no problems and if I run direct digital out from
>the Sony I encounter drop outs too. I guess it depends on
>the player.

This was the reason for my remark about Sony equipment.

Anyway, i don't like the policy of Sony. Why is there not any attention about the obvious mixing of interests between the software section (Sony Music) and the hardware section?

Hardware that will not, or unreliable, play recordable media, the lack of hybrid sacd's from Sony Music, the lack of dvd-a support... any more to add?

 

[AllAroundSurround]

pe1dna
Anyway, i don't like the policy of Sony. Why is there not any attention about the obvious mixing of interests between the software section (Sony Music) and the hardware section?

Sorry, but could you expand on this a little.
I'm not understanding what you mean!
Are you implying to Sonys Lack of desire to implament DVD-A into their Hardware?
Thanks
Rob<img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\">

 

[bming]

>This was the reason for my remark about Sony equipment

You're right, I did read it wrong. But I have never had any problems with droupouts, or anything like that my Sony DVD SACD player. It sounds like he might have a bought a lemon.

>Hardware that will not, or unreliable, play recordable media

Again, I have never had any problems with my player. I agree with you on your other points though.
Brian